Meyer Lemon Sugar

Welcome to another day of Meyer Lemon Madness. Today brings you a recipe to make your own flavoured sugar. It’s s simple recipe to make your own Meyer Lemon Sugar. You can use regular lemons in the recipe if Meyers are not in season, or available in your area. Any recipe using Meyer Lemons you can swap in regular lemons if you need to. Meyers are just a touch sweeter.

I love Meyer Lemons. It’s like an obsession when they are in season. I just cannot get enough of them. I thought I was down to my last ten the other day when hubs called to say he had found the motherload on his way back from out of town. Apparently the store had boatloads of them. So I calmly told him I wanted 10 batches. Gotta love a man who doesn’t bat an eyelash when asked to buy 40 lemons. He didn’t even give me a hard time about it, or ask what the heck I was going to do with 40 lemons. That’s lemon love people.

I’ve been contemplating getting myself a juicer to help tackle the mountain of lemons on my kitchen table. I may price some out today at Walmart and Costco. I’d love a Blendtec one day. But today will not be that day. I’ll try to find a cheap one for the time being. Make sure I get enough use out of my juice before I shell out the big bucks for my dream one.

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Speaking of dreams, it’s funny when you have a mountain of meyer lemons in your kitchen how they start to invade your dreams. I’m not sure this is normal. I swear I’m dreaming up recipes in my sleep at this point. One night I dreamed I couldn’t juice them all because I broke both my arms. Yah, totally normal right? Then I dreamed they were multiplying and trying to get in my bedroom at night. Again, totally normal right? Last night I dreamed they were chasing me and I rode off on my horse. Then she turned a yellowy orange colour. Normal right?

Yup, clearly I need to invest in a juicer as the thought of hand squeezing 75/80 lemons is causing me stress. Oh, did I mention before hubs found the meyers I had a panic attack I wouldn’t find any more so I bought a case of normal lemons? Yup, clearly the lemons have gotten to my brain. There’s no sensible reason for anyone to have close to 100 lemons. Yet I still feel this need to hunt down more meyers before they are all gone.

My life would be so much easier with a juicer. I’m not looking forward to juicing the rest of these lemons without one. I may have to run out and invest in one as soon as possible. I’m sure you all have small appliances you covet as well. What ones are you just chomping at the bit to try?

You know-if the only problem you have is lemons on the brain, I would say you don’t have any problems. AND at least those problems smell good. This sugar sounds sweet and I could use some goodness right now. And (again) go see my drink using lemons. You will love it.

Love this! Great recipe, and totally fun post – you’re the Meyer Lemon Queen, no question! When we lived in Florida and had citrus trees (including Meyer lemon!) we had one of those inexpensive electric juicers that cost maybe $20 (if that) – the ones where you put the cut half of the fruit face down on the business end of the juicer, press down, and it does it stuff. It takes a bit of time, but I could juice a big colander full of oranges in maybe 5 minutes. FWIW. 😉 Anyway, fun post.

For eons. I realize that’s not a solid answer, is it? Lol. I have some I made 6 months ago. So a long time. Sometimes it’ll get some hard spots but just use a spoon to break them up. The moisture from the lemon can make the sugar clump a tiny bit. The salts last pretty much forever. The sugar I’d say 3 to 6 months. Hope that helps.

Thank you! Will try drying the lemon as much as possible before adding to the sugar! I want to make lemonade mix to go with Kilner style bottles as client presents so i will give your lemon sugar recipe a go!